Job 5:3

Eliphaz says he saw a fool taking root, then suddenly pronounced his home cursed. He claims firsthand evidence that the wicked's apparent prosperity is short-lived.

Cross-references · 10

• Ps 73:18–20Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
• Ps 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
• Jer 12:1–3Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
• Acts 1:20For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
• Ps 73:3–9For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Deut 27:15–26Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
• Ps 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
• Job 24:18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

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